Profile
London-based artist Leigh Glover is a portraitist and landscape painter working primarily in oils but also in watercolour and pencil. He completed a Diploma of ortrait Painting at Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London and in 2007 left there with the Portrait Diploma Prize. Feedback from the panel of assessors that included external artists as well as internal tutors noted him as a "painterly painter" with a creative freedom in his work.
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The following year one of his oil portraits was selected for the Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhbition in the Mall Galleries, London. This painting ("Sonya" - see in Portraits) won further recognition as a finalist in the Windsor & Newton sponsored "Young Artist" competition. One of his works was shown again in the Mall Galleries when in 2009 his pencil portrait of Scroobius Pip, was selected by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition. |
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After graduating from Oxford Brookes university with an honours degree in cartography, Leigh was awarded a runner-up prize for an oil-on-canvas landscape in the Society of All Artists 2005 Young Artist of the Year nationwide competition.
Qualifications
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2007 |
Diploma in Portrait Painting |
Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London |
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2002 |
BSc (Hons) Mapping & Cartography |
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford |
Awards
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2008 |
Windsor and Newton, Young Artist, Finalist |
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
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2007 |
Portrait Diploma Prize |
Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London
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2005 |
Young Artist of the Year, Runner up |
Society of All Artists |
Exhibitions
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Dec 2009 |
Gallery SW3, Christmas Show |
Kings Rd., London
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Dec 2009 |
Queens Elms Artists, Christmas Show
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Queens Elms, Fulham Rd., London |
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Nov 2009 |
The Windsor Contemporary Art Fair |
Windsor race course, Windsor
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2009 |
The Untitled Artist Fair |
The Chelsea Town Hall, London
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2009 |
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
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Mall Galleries, The Mall, London |
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2009 |
Friends of Holland Park
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The Orangery, Holland Park, London |
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2008 |
The Painted Face
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Orleans House Gallery, London |
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2008 |
A-Frame Gallery, Brecon |
Brecon, Wales |
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2007 |
SaLon Art Fair 2007 |
SaLon Gallery, London
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2007 |
Royal Institute of Oil Painters |
Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
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2007 |
Heatherley’s Show |
Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London
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2006 |
Oakham Galleries Stand |
Affordable Art Fair, London
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